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Immanuel Kant (/kænt/; German: [ɪˈmaːnu̯eːl kant]; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher who is a central figure in modern philosophy. Kant argues that the human mind creates the structure of human experience, that reason is the source of morality, that aesthetics arises from a faculty of disinterested judgment, that space and time are forms of human sensibility, and that the world as it is "in-itself" is independent of humanity's concepts of it. Kant took himself to have effected a "Copernican revolution" in philosophy, akin to Copernicus' reversal of the age-old belief that the sun revolves around the earth. Kant's beliefs continue to have a major influence on contemporary philosophy, especially the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political theory, and aesthetics.

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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.

Action, Law, Maxim, Principles, Universal

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

Dare, Enlightenment, Immaturity, Intelligence, Know, Use

I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.

Heart, Impressions, Mom, Mother, Nurtured, Understanding

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

Imagination, Ingredients, Necessary, Perception, Psychologists, Realize

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

Denies, Dignity, Inscrutable, Respect, Wisdom, Worthy

Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated.

Appointed, Character, Chooses, Listens, Order, Teacher

Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

Nature, Order, Regularly, Science

Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.

Patience, Strength, Strong, Weak, Weakness

But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is to be avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

Art, Divorce, Garden, Room, Useful

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

Inevitably, Political, Power, Reason, Use

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

Beings, Ends, Mean, Treated

It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank and ice, that soon melts away, tempt us to believe in new lands, while constantly deceiving the adventurous mariner with vain hopes, and involving him in adventures which he can never leave, yet never bring to an end.

Adventures, Believe, Constantly, Home, Ocean

There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva).

Church, Collectiva, Doubt, Teacher, Teachers, Union

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Betrayal, Guilty, Inspirational, Rights, Trust, Violates

Human reason has the peculiar fate. . . that it is burdened with questions that it cannot dismiss. . . but which it also cannot answer.

Fate, Peculiar, Answers, Reason, Burdened, Human

Two things fill the mind with ever increasing wonder and awe. The more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Awe And Wonder, Drawn, Intensely, Law, Two, Wonder

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!

Courage, Enlightenment, Indecision, Lying, Men, Nonage

The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth

Continue, Earth, Future, Life, Mars, Possible

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

Able, Dignity, Owns, Rich

Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e. g. , if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

Blood, Cling, Inhabiting, Island, Islands, Punishment

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